one from kirsten gillibrand, and one from claire mccaskill. both have bipart stan support, but not enough to beat a filibuster. >> amy iering, the producer of "the invisible war" joins u and from san francisco, ceristine pelosi. the chair. women's party. >> why is it divisive to remove the charges from the military and put in an independent arena? >> the conduct of the rapist - let's me clear where the decision is coming from. people are committing crimes, we have to do something about it. kirsten gillibrand's amendment is the one that would put merc on a par with allies, including great britain, australia and israel saying for felony crimes and nonmilitary, put it in the hands of what we americans would consider to be a police department's internal affairs bureau and let the commanders continue the good for discipline, knowing that the crime will be prosecuted by specialists in the field of sexual assault. >> on the other hand claire mccaskill's plan gives the decision to prosecute within the chain of command but adds a review board. is that

kirsten, i'll start with you. do you think that the president's made enough of an apology at this point to express that he feels what people are going through and takes in some way responsibility for telling them they could keep their plans when we know the administration knew to some extent they wouldn't be able to? >> yeah, i mean, i think it is an apology. maybe people want a little more self-flagellation or something, but he definitely did apologize. it was a little too late, i would say, after they had, you know, come out day after day kind of acting annoyed a bit that people were complaining about this and a little put out. and then i think they realized that it was getting out of control and they were going to have to do something. so, the next question really is what are they going to do about it? so, he's sorry that this happened, but what's going to be done to fix the fact that a lot of people are losing their plans and having to pay double and more to get a new plan that's actually contrary to what they

one from kirsten gillibrand, and one from claire mccaskill. both have bipart stan support, filibuster. >> amy iering, the producer of "the invisible war" joins u and from san francisco, ceristine pelosi. the chair. women's party. >> why is it divisive to remove the charges from the military and put in an independent arena? >> the conduct of the rapist - let's me clear where the decision is coming from. people are committing crimes, we have to do something about it. kirsten gillibrand's amendment is the one that would put merc on a par with allies, including great britain, australia and israel saying for felony crimes and nonmilitary, put it in the hands of what we americans would consider to be a police department's internal affairs bureau and let the commanders continue the good for discipline, knowing that the crime will be prosecuted by specialists in the field of sexual assault. >> on the other hand claire mccaskill's plan gives the decision to prosecute within the chain of command but adds a review board. is that enough? >> no, it's not.

they did a lot of comparison. >> isn't it ironic, kirsten. isn't it ironic that the biggest problem in the beginning of president obama's tenure that he faced lack of faith in the government to do anything has now been exacerbated used that word yesterday by him. >> yes. >> now he is making it worse. >> right. no, i mean, it's really bad for the cause your cause i believe president obama never read the law, kate, you agree? no, he didn't read the law but he read all the components of it. >> i don't believe he read people keep your healthcare. policy people saying you can't. >> is that the same policy people that explained benghazi wasn't spontaneous uprising. >> i'm telling you bill he is not a fool. he makes decision based on the information he is given and decides how to spin it. >> i don't think he is paying attention, powers. i just don't. is he a big picture guy. he wants to be the income redistributer guy. the guy that gives everybody healthcare and here is a 975 page law in front of him. is he not going it read it his people are going

senator kirsten gillibrand has support from nearly half the senate. but her proposal is stalled. the pentagon opposes the plan. opponents insist that commanders, not an outside military lawyer, must be accountable in such cases. the senate is expected to take up the bill this week. >> >> it has only been on the market for a couple of days but already, sony is reporting that they have sold more than 1 million of the new place station 4 a game consoles. the ps 4 went on sale friday and the united states and canada. sony says that it expects to sell 5 million of them by the end of march next year.

kirsten, what do you think about the date change? we're told that it will be so the insurers will have more information to judge. jim engel, one of our key reporters on obama care all the time says it doesn't jive because the new rates have to be submitted by the end of may. why would you need to delay things in the fall? >> what they're saying is that it's because obama care is a -- we have a delay on the front end, right, because of the website, so therefore you have to delay a little longer to give the insurance companies more time. but does a month really -- i mean, they've extended it a month. if they were extending it six months, it might -- but i'm saying i don't think an extra month is actually going to change that much in terms of the insurance companies having time to sift over all the data, which is what they're saying, they have to have time to set the rates and see how many young people are going to get in. a hard way to get around the fact that this is a political decision. >> are we reading too much into it? >> i think

democrats think very highly of kirsten gillibrand, the way she has worked so hard behind the scenes and worked across the aisle to persuade people to support her approach to this. she's refused to give in or to compromise with the other approach that was offered, and she's really drawn support from a lot of unexpected quarters. i think with senator reid offering his support now, that's a big deal and that could potentially move some votes into her column as well. >> manu, as you know not taking sides is the white house. jay carney wouldn't say which bill the president supports. considering the armed services chairman, carl levin and claire mccaskill are pushing their plan, how do you think this plays out? >> i don't think it's going to pass. she's going to need 60 votes. even if she does get 60 votes, getting that through a house senate conference committee is extremely grim. given the opposition from a lot of the defense hawks, from the pentagon to her proposal, there probably will be some changes to how the military prosecutes

some support kirsten gillibrand saying it should be taken out of military hands. senator mccain says it should not be. >> i say it as passionately as i can to my colleagues, if we do not trust the commanding officers who take the young men and women in to battle - if we don't trust them, then we obviously better re-evaluate our structure of the military. >> now, one of the 52 senators that supports the kirsten gillibrand amendment and wants sexual assault cases out of the an military hands is senator claire mccaskill. from alaska. a military-oriented state. >> there are many commanders, our code of military justice may be uniform. i think we are seeing strong evidence that its implementation is anything but uniform. >> despite senator claire mccaskill's and support for the kirsten gillibrand amendment it did not get anywhere on the senate floor. the pentagon has pushed back, instead top brass are supporting efforts by senator claire mccaskill, democrat of missouri, atting in layers of oversight but not taking them outside the chain of command. one thing that senat

when kirsten gillibrand is on the same side as rand paul, that's quite something. and it goes on and on down the line. we have senator grassley's support. by the way, 17 of the 20 women support the gillibrand amendment. i hope that's a message. that is the right way to go. and i'm going to explain it. now, my involvement in this is deep and long. 20 years ago, we were all outraged to learn that nearly 100 women and men had been sexually harassed and assaulted by a group of naval aviators during a convention of the tailhook association. i think a lot of us remember that who were around then. and i was a new senator at the time and i was completely shocked at what happened. they had a gauntlet, people walked through it. they were who are as the. they were hurt. they were distraught when it was over. so in the wake of the tailhook scandal, senior military leaders promised to crack down on the crime of sexual assault with then-secretary of defense dick cheney declaring a zero tolerance policy. so i want to show you how many times different secretaries of defense, democ

democrat kirsten powers has had her plan canceled. is she mad as hell and won't take obamacare longer. and another is indeed mad as hell, but we have two youngsters showing us how america ought to be. a 13-year-old who has written a best seller in praise of capitalism, and a varney team member who commuted daily on a bus to get the job. and they're both here. we have a painting from new jersey that will sell upwards of $20 millionment hey, jersey is cool, isn't it? and jfk remembered. surely he'd be a republican today. ♪ two big developments with obamacare first thing this morning. first off, the administration announcing that next year's enrollment period will be pushed back one month. from october 15 to november 15. that is one week after the all important elections. so, you vote first, then you get the sticker shock of obamacare. and the california health care exchange board voting not to enact president obama's fix. it would have allowed people to keep their existing plan for the next year. that board says, all the fix would do

some support kirsten gillibrand say it should be taken out of the military chain of command. it should be left in the hands of the military to enforce their own codes of conduct. senator mccain on the floor today. >> i say it as passionately as i can to my colleagues, if we do not trust commanding officers who take our young men and women and battle a precious asset. if we don't trust them, we better re-evaluate our structure of the military. >> one of the 52 senators who supports the kirsten gillibrand amendment and wants sexual assault cases taken out is senator claire mccaskill, a senator of alaska. >> there are many commanders we know that. our code of military justice may be uniform. i think we are seeing strong evidence that it's implementation is anything but uniform. >> despite senator mccows ski's support it did not get anywhere on wednesday. the pentagon has pushed back mass pushed back and are supporting effort by claire mccaski mccaskill. one thing that senator claire mccaskill is proposing - making sure the commanders can no longer throw out court-martial convict

i disagree with kirsten. i think when there is blatant incompetence which we see from the secretary sebelius right now, she has to step aside. that's one of the things that's wrong with government that there is no accountability. in the private sector she would have been fired and somebody very competent would have been brought in to replace her. there is this notion there is only one person who could too it. lots of people out there pick up midstream and actually turn this around, possibly. i don't think the whole thing could be turned around. there is somebody who could come in and there show some competence and handle the different vendors and bring people together. she can't do it there is no question. >> pat roberts the senator from kansas knows sebelius because she used to be the governor of kansas and he doesn't like her at all, obviously. he threw her under 18 buses not just one. there is a whole line of buses going over here. but, what i don't understand and maybe you can explain it to me kirsten is

you put yourself on the side of kirsten gillibrand on this issue. i want to read you this, "under kirsten's scenario, those cases would not go forward. the new regime of lawyers would have all the power around these prosecutions. they would also be the last word. the missouri democrat said she had to make the case undecided lawmakers voting for our reform doesn't make you anti-woman. do you think that people that don't support the kirsten gillibrand legislation are anti-woman? that is a fair characterization? that is a bad split for the democratic party? >> i'm actually going to take your question just one step b k back. it's important for everyone to understand wherever they fall on this issue, it's not just a woman's issue. there are more men assaulted than women. this is not men versus women or anti-women this is sexual violent crimes occurring today in our military that need to be stemmed and prevented and those perpetrators brought to justice. we see two leaders in the senate, senator gillibrand and mccaskill have done tremendous work on the is

this is confounding as ever, kirsten, right? >> but i also think it is really flawed argument we have to save everybody from so substandard plans. a lot of them are substandard only if after a certain date but everybody else can keep their substandard plans. doesn't make any sense. bill: yeah. steven hayes just argued 30 minutes ago more democrats will jump ship. katy, in a word yes or no? absolutely, yes. >> bill: kirsten do you believe that? >> yes, if they can't get this fixed people will be freaking out. bill: breaking news. thank you to both you. kirsten powers, katy past like to you as well. thank you. martha: we're back to the top story of the day and the devastating storms across the midwest, another hard-hit spot, frankfurt, illinois, just outside of chicago. anita padilla, fox affiliate is there live. anita, what does it look like on the ground there? >> reporter: nothing like the devastation we saw in washington, illinois, but nonetheless people did feel and were very away. down the way there is scattered debris in a

you gave kirsten powers a pass. you should have raked her over the coals about supporting obama care. she played you. i don't think so, denise. i won the debate. kirsten admits liberalism has been badly set up. no need to involve coal or another fossil fuel. global warming, you know. i'm a conservative but think kirsten is the most honest commentator on cable news. karen from maryland. good for you, bill, trying to define president obama's spiritual pleefs. looks like he spends more time on the golf course than in church. >> that's more common than you may think. durham, north carolina, mary johnson. you told the president's spiritual adviser you don't proselytize. then you say secularism is a recipe for unhappiness. i said folks who live just for themselves are often unhappy. i'm happy. i said that because it's true. nick from century, florida. since dennis miller turned 60 perhaps the show in vegas should be called two ohgeezers at caesars. since we have sold out the palace two years in a row they can call it anyt

kirsten, do you think the obama administration in general is promoting self-reliance? are they promoting self-reliance in washington? >> well, i don't think what he he was talking about was. >> no, no i'm just asking you about it. i'm asking you. >> i don't think any president in recent history has really promoted self-reliance. >> calvin coolidge and ronald reagan both did. >> in recent history for me is really not ronald reagan. but my point is i don't thinit's the government's -- this isn't about the government. i think what he was talking about is people being more. >> you don't think the obama administration is he promoting. >> dependent on parents not the government. >> i will take it as a no that you don't think the obama administration is -- >> -- but i don't think that they are not. i don't think they are or are not. i just don't think that that is the role of the government it to promote self-reliance. >> i do. if i were president i would be running around saying. >> you would be cutting everybody's benefits and starving them to death? >> i would have that sc

including a key senator who may have her own eyes on the white house, new york's kirsten gillibrand. >>> and -- 50 years later, remembering jfk. all that and the powerhouse roundtable, right here, this sunday morning. >>> hello, again. i'm martha raddatz. great to have you with us. if second terms are about building a legacy this was an incredibly tough week for president obama, who this morning is still facing withering attacks on his signature legislative achievement health care reform. and more troubling for the white house, democrats are joining in. we have full coverage of the president's very rough week, let's begin at the white house where jonathan karl has the very latest. good morning, jon. >> reporter: president obama has staked his legacy on the affordable care act, but now the flawed rollout threatens to undermine the foundation of his second term. the president came in front of the cameras and fell on his sword. >> we did fumble the ball on it. that's something that i deeply regret. >> reporter: six weeks after the bungled rollout of healthcare.gov, the white house revea

kirsten what can president obama, democrats do to save this thing? anything do you think? >> first of all they have to be able to get the website work. i don't think we can really see how this works until the website is working. it is very hard for people to know what kind of insurance they're going to have. i think he needs to do something about the people who are seeing their premiums double for not better insurance. for actually often times less good insurance. and he should keep the promise that he made which is if you have the plan you like you should be able to keep it. i think they need to figure out a way to fix that. martha: pretty expensive it look like. we'll see. skiers ten, brad, great to see you as always. see you next time. bill: one thing that is clear. this will be with us for years. martha: yes. bill: as long as you are are sitting here. martha: as long as we hang in there we'll be talking about. bill: unbelievable for a generation. >>> new push for tighter sanctions on iran after talks hit a brick wall. france, france says forget it, no deal! kt mack far

i'm chris jansing. 50 votes, senator kirsten gillibrand, a passionate advocate for victims of military sexual assault now has half the senate behind her bill to take prosecution out of the chain of command. number 49, senator dean heller, joined her at a news conference yesterday. and number 50, the majority leader, harry reid, announcing his support shortly after. gillibrand's bill would turn the investigation over to prosecutors instead of commanders. she is expected to speak on the senate floor today and a vote is coming this week. >> they must create an independent, unbiased, military justice system that is deserving of the sacrifice that the men and women in the armed services make every single day. >> the question of how to prosecute sexual assaults in the military has deeply divided the senate, pitting senator claire mccaskill against gillibrand. mccaskill is offering her own bill to make changes to the process but keeping commanders involved. >> i would be less than candid if i didn't say it has been frustrating to have one policy difference dominate the discussion of this issu

there aren't many words but i'm very thankful. >> kirsten? >> yeah, i would say for friends and family and particularly my two little nieces khloe and mataya. >> charles? >> correct answer, barack obama. as woodward, bob woodward said richard nixon the gift that keeps on going. >> all right. and i will offer mine as well. tomorrow is my third year anniversary at fox news. i used to watch this program religiously long before i was employed here to. have this opportunity to sit here at this desk on a part-time basis even once is something i'm very thankful for to be with such esteemed colleagues like this. thank you all for that and that's going to do it for the panel. but stay tuned for a look at the real life hunger games that will be taking place tonight. >>> wrapping up a relaxing day at home there are some that will be making their way through the black friday gauntlet with scenes that look like they are right out of a movie. >> this friday -- the end -- has only begun. >> black friday. >> so truth is scarier than fiction, i guess. that's

there aren't many words but i'm very thankful. >> kirsten? >> yeah, i would say for friends and family and particularly my two little nieces khloe and mataya. >> charles? >> correct answer, barack obama. as woodward, bob woodward said richard nixon the gift that keeps on going. >> all right. and i will offer mine as well. tomorrow is my third year anniversary at fox news. i used to watch this program religiously long before i was employed here to. have this opportunity to sit here at this desk on a part-time basis even once is something i'm very thankful for to be with such esteemed colleagues like this. thank you all for that and that's going to do it for the panel. but stay tuned for a look at the real life hunger games that will be taking place tonight. there's a new way to buy a car. it's called truecar. and truecar users... save time and money. so when you're... ready to buy a car, make sure you... never overpay. visit truecar.com today. >>> wrapping up a relaxing day at home there are some that will be making their way through the black

jon: kirsten, think back to the reagan administration. when ronald reagan was president, the media were all over him, especially in the latter years, you know suggesting that that this was a president who was, you know, totally uninvolved in his own administration. didn't know about this kind of thing or that kind of thing. i mean, are the media really giving an honest, critical assessment of what is going on in this white house? >> i think they are think they n the past. i think that he has gotten passes on a lot of different things, in particular benghazi. now we have a "60 minutes" report out that is, i think showing that a lot of the reporting that was done by fox news was correct and by handful of other people including cheryl atkinson at cbs news was correct and completely poo-pooed by the mainstream media. so he has gotten a pass on a lot of things and people have accepted his stories like on benghazi, when we still don't, we still don't know where the president was the night of gauze guard and reporters seem to be okay with that f

amy holtz, who anchors the hot list for the blaze and kirsten powers, fox news contributor and a columnist for the daily beast. the negative coverage as we just saw has turned from obama care to obama himself, questions about his credibility. is this a turning point? >> of course it is. it used to be one or two people who were sounding that alarm about him and his personal trust and credibility. and now it's front page news everywhere. "the wall street journal," slate, the huffington post, "the washington post" all saying something about his credibility. in obama we trust, question mark. >> is that justified? >> it is justified given the mistake that he has made. and once a president loses this kind of credibility, it is tough to get it back. >> the health care rollout has been a disaster. even the president would not deny that. but is the press being unduly personal in not making this about a policy fiasco, but about whether he personally is untrustworthy? >> well, he did make those campaign promises over and over again. two weeks ago on the show, i said the emperor was wearing no clothes

here to sort out all the legal fallout fox news legal analyst mercedes cohen and kirsten wilson. i should say at the outset your law firm represents jonathan. it's improper to bully in the workplace the nfl locker room. the rough and tumble of football. it ain't your average work place, is it? >> you are right but this is where the lines are crossed when you start talking about racial epitaphs and say i'm going to gang rain your sister. when you start now being physical with these individuals with martin and attach ago racial epitaph. that's where it's no longer horseplay. that's where there is a is violation of the law that's why this has all come forward. >> title 7 the fact that you can't work in a work place that is racially hostile. hostile work environment. we have all been through that type of training. i happen to litigate that type of case. >> kirsten, what do you think? >> i think you are right. mercedes is certainly right. nobody has to work in a environment where they are subject to racial pep it as the. training she has mention weed have sat there and the antithesis

kirsten powers, judy miller. unbelievable. >> thank you,. jenna: meantime the president's apology for the troubled rollout of the health care exchange website raises questions about the impact of the 2014 elections. plus a big meeting today between miami dolphins player jonathan martin and nfl investigators. what he could say about the bullying scandal that has everyone talking. jenna: welcome back, everyone. some international headlines we're watching for you today. the daughter of president john f. kennedy is america's new ambassador to japan. caroline kennedy arriving in tokyo today saying it's a privilege to carry on her father's legacy of public service. >>> also protests in sri lanka where visit by british prime minister david cameron. demonstrators are angry he is there for a summit. cameron sharply criticized the president for alleged human rights violations during that country's civil war. >>> a tragic scene along a railroad in india. seven elephants killed and others injured by a passing train. the herd was crossing tracks in the m

kirsten powers, judy miller. thank you both. >> thank you, jon. jon: we continue to mark this terrible day in american history. 50 years ago the assassination of a president. how the nation is today, remembering john fitzgerald kennedy. announcer: right now at sleep train, save hundreds on beautyrest and posturepedic. choose $300 in free gifts with tempur-pedic. even choose 48 months interest-free financing on the new tempur-choice. the triple choice sale ends soon at sleep train. jon: so we asked for your stories about jfk and where you were, what you remember about the day you were shot. jay is a former alaska state trooper, says 50 years ago today i was in trinidad, colorado, going to gunsmith school at junior college when he was shot. many dozens of us were in the common buildings glued to the tv. patti ann: we heard from gary who said he was actually at the parade and remembers the sound of the gunshot. was complete chaos. security watts nothing like today, interesting. a sad day for sure. jon: it is amazing when you look at those images of t

joining us from washington indicate kate obenshain and kirsten powers fox news analyst. kate, what say you? >> on the census bureau thing i think this is a little bit of a controversy theory perhaps, this is one person out of 7,000 people who are census bureau people and i don't think that one person could actually alter the unemployment numbers. >> it was one person identified and then a number of other blind sources, which again, you have got to be skeptical of. i take your point. but, you know, just one after another here, is it not? isn't it just start to just say, look, when is it ever going to end? >> well, it would help, i mean, it can't be one after another if the one we are talking about is probably not even true. >> why do you say probably not even true? give it a 50/50, right? >> because you would have to have an extraordinary number of people doing what this woman was doing in order to actually alter the overall numbers. and we don't have any evidence that that was happening. >> i'm not sure that is true. >> even still, the idea that somehow people would be d

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kirsten powers has no idea how the real world works. in industry incompetent managers are fired and escorted out the door. there is little accountability going on in washington. jeffrey reeves, denver, colorado. if kirsten was advising lincoln, grant never would have been appointed and the south would have won the war. harsh. susan from virginia. charles krauthammer is wrong. ken cuccinelli didn't lose because he was a weak candidate. he lost because the republican party didn't help him enough and a third party libertarian candidate got some votes. on the third party guy exit polling show uhs he took votes from the republicans and the democrats. >> toronto, canada. mayor ford's approval ratings were up seven points after he confessed to smoking crack. brian from toronto, the reason rob ford survives as mayor is he cut government spending and brought the radical left city council under control. i'm still with ford. >> from randy in toronto. i'm surprised that the you and martha fell for the liberal media machine here. kevin from north ca

steve hayes, kirsten powers and george will. what about this, george? >> well, everyone is talking about extraordinarily complicated act as though it's a tinker toy. if you don't like this part, just plug in another part. it's much more like a calder mobile which he called a kinetic sculpture. if you touch something over here, things jiggle all the way over here. it's very hard to change this piecemeal and that's about what they're about to find out and this is why you can probably only have this created by a president who had never run anything larger than a senate office. and that is why we generally prefer governors as presidents. they have at least run something. >> you know, the white house today was asked what are the options for doing this. they are not signing on to these pieces of legislation that are essentially you can keep your plan if you like your plan. listen to jay carney today on that answer. >> what is not, i think, an effective fix is one that is envisioned on the hill by some legislation that would simply tell insurers they can sell

disagreement camps, one that has been led by christian jill a brand of new york and another senator kirsten gillibrand of new york and claire mccaskill. it is about how military justice matters are handled, with the military brass generally opposing the idea of undercutting or changing the protocol regarding change of command. a timeline for the defense authorization bill? between the sexual assault issue and the other issues that might come up, oversight of the intelligence programs and this issue with potentially upping sanctions against air and -- iran, it is not clear yet because these amendments take time to process. we have not talked about any of the normal disagreements about combat systems and ships and readiness and actual nuts and bolts military issues. the idea originally was to get some real off of the senate floor before thanksgiving in time for the thanksgiving break. that is becoming increasingly unlikely the cause of the number of issues that seem to be piling up. kerryfinally, secretary was on capitol hill to talk about relations with iran. have you heard of a plan to move

new york's kirsten gillibrand. >> if you do not create a system outside of the chain of command your hope to report so we can weigh the evidence to see whether we can go to trial , it's not there. the hope isn't there. the confidence in an objective review of someone who doesn't know the perpetrator, doesn't know the victim doesn't exist . >> reporter: gillibrand seeks to remove the chain of command. >> you can't train your way out of this problem. there are 23,000 command climates that were not strong enough, that didn't insure justice, that created fear of retaliation. that's the problem. without creating transparency and accountability, without saying the decider doesn't know the victim or the perpetrator, there is no bias. the senator's bill has the support of many democrats and a significant number of republicans are on board as well in opposition and saying that gillibrand's reforms going too far are a number of key democrats whose votes are critical in this, senator claire mmccaskill of missouri. >> we'll be creating more problems than we're solving if we break the chain of co

the senate votes today on a measure by kirsten gillibrand on how the military handles sexual assault cases. >> what we have today is zero accountability. >> reporter: 50 senators have signed on to support the gillibra gillibrand amendment. that's something some sexual assault survivors want. >> leebs these cases within the chain of command exacerbates the problem of repeat performance. >> there's a lot of pressure. >> reporter: a group of bipartisan opposers oppose it. we believe strongly that this would create a system that would actually be worse for victims and sig kif can'tly undermine the military and the justice system. it would take way their ability to overrule verdicts, require dishonorable discharge or dismissal for anyone convicted of a sexual assault, and creates a civilian board to review cases where commanders decide not to prosecute. so far the white house has not taken a position on the gillibrand amendment. anne-marie? >> susan mcginnen in washington. thank you. >>> senator creigh deeds is apparently i tical condition after being stabbed by his son. he was stabbed in

mr show with matt had three s surviving victims and kirsten said. gps denial that deeply disappointing to the victims. for some to the point of death. she plans to meet all surviving victims in person. i was so sad to hear at that. in our last august. two of them remaining and comfort them in the past two a and then i hesitate to attend the funeral of one of the meeting. and i do as i'm told by. her stepson and remember. that's when she watched tv and saw the reports that the second is politicians. i made tonight as the igniting of those comfort him in a shares it's just so sad and disappointed and confused she refused to eat bleaching. after that until she passed me. mr jo said she and the ministry will do all we can to bring about an official apology to the victims and finally after all this time have their dignity restored. the exhibit will run during the end of january is holy. nancy. i knew this. after more into e years of construction the long awaited seoul branch of the national museum of modern and contemporary art korea finally opened its d

senator kirsten gillibrand of new york insists that needs to change. she told "to the contrary" when current policies don't do enough to protect working women the entire economy suffers. >> i'm introducing legislation called the family act. and it's quite simple. it provides for paid family medical leave for all employees that is a safety net that is invested in by all employees over their lifetimes. for less than a cup of coffee a week they will provide money into a savings account that will then be used when they need to take their leave. >> gillibrand plans to introduce the family and medical insurance leave act or family act this month as part of her five-point american opportunity agenda. her plan to empower working families and strengthen the middle class includes paid family and medical leave, affordable day care, universal pre-k, equal pay for equal work and raising the minimum wage. >> these are things so common sense and they help women and men and our whole middle class thrive because their families are cared for a new mother has time with h

mccaskill who agrees on 90% of what they talk about in terms of prosecuting these offenders but she and kirsten gillibrand who is the sponsor of the major bill that talks about chain of command, they disagree on this piece. >> they completely disagree on this central focus of gillibrand's amendment is she wants to take control away from commanders. think about it this way, if someone is raped in the military, they essentially have to go to their commander and the commander decides to prosecute. claire mccaskill wants -- and the majority of the military, certainly the pentagon, wants to keep it in the chain of command because they say it's the commander who really has to look after the good order and discipline in their ranks. nerd, they want to know what's -- in other words, they want to know what's going on. a good example, one of the victims said, look, it's like the commander has to decide between the brother and sister in the family, is the brother more senior, does he trust the brother more? does he know the guy who is fully decorated and been in battle and maybe the victim, he doesn't kno

kirsten gilla brand is pushing for legislation to take it outside the military chain of command. others are fighting to keep them in the process. >> there's an agreement about troops in afghanistan, allowing them to stay behind after 2014. the deal with afghan president hamid karzai calls for soldiers to assist in training, but not take on combat roles. the u.s. and other world powers are in geneva discussing the nuclear

. >> reporter: the one getting the most tension is by kirsten gillibrand, senator from new york. she wants to take these cases outside of the chain of command. it would be dealt with, but not in that crucial line of command. that means if you're the accus accuser, victim, or the accused, it would not be your commanding officer make a decision on your career and your life in this situation. >> simply put we must remove the conflict of interest in the current system. the system in which commanders can sweep his own crime or the crime of a decorated soldiers or a friend under the rug, protect the guilty and protect serial predators, and it harms military readiness. >> the senator's proposal has gotten push back from members of the armed services committee including john mccain, republican of arizona. >> i say it as passionately as i can to my colleagues, that if we do not trust the commanding officers who take our young men and women into battle our most precious asset, if we don't trust them, then we obviously had better reevaluate our entire structure of the military. >> we're wai

. >> 10 of the 11 kirsten's are republican appointees. 10 of the 11 persons are republican appointees. there has been attention to the low rate of denials of the applications in the last 10 years of 18,000 some odd applications. these have given some momentum considering reform of the court how it is appointed. i am not sure the current selection process makes a lot of sense. i think it would serve the government's interest to have a process that was seen as a more fair one and that resulted in more representative court. i would not put this problem at the top of the list. i do not think the fundamental problem is that we have the wrong judges on the fisa court. i think the problem is structural. it is the way the fisa court operates. questionskinds of that the fisa court is now addressing which are not the questions that the fisa question -- the fisa courts were supposed to address when it was set up in 1978. all the secrecy has allowed of this entire body of law to build up without the kind of rigorous oversight that usually happens with ordinary judicial opinions of ordinary courts

i want to thank for their extraordinary advocacy senator claire mccaskill of missouri, senator kirsten gillibrand of washington and patty murray of and many, many others. they have put into the pending bill many effective and necessary reforms. i supported them and i appreciate chairman levin and ranking member senator inhofe for including 26 reforms in the underlying defense authorization bill. i want to highlight one reform in particular that i played a small part in, the special victims counsels. i want to highlight this reform because victims need and deserve someone in their corner helping them through what is probably one of the toughest moments of their lives. in testimony earlier this year in the defense authorization committee which i chair, the head of the air force talked about how effective this pilot program of special victims counsels has been. the bill that is pending before us would expand their services and my subcommittee's appropriation mark, spending mark ensures that it will be fully funded. the bill's other reforms are equally powerful, improving prevention, holdi